The Man's 2013 Valentine's Day Playlist

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There are really just three kinds of songs: songs about love, songs about love lost, and songs about everything else. Asking someone to make a Valentine's playlist is a futile exercise: a third of everything ever recorded is fair game, and there's nothing more random, or personal, than the way somebody connects with a love song. Playlists about fruit or playlists about furniture? Easy. But Valentine's playlists are snowflakes — no two people are ever going to agree on the same ten songs. Thus for this list, there are but two criteria:

A) They're not super-obvious. No "'Crazy." No "My Girl." No "Killing Me Softly with His Song."

B) They're direct, useful, and, in most cases, feature at least one line of universal, or conversely, completely unique, sentiment — a lyric Hallmark has yet to mine but you secretly wish they did. Or they're just irreverent.

Here are those songs and the lyrics that make them significant...

Click below for the songs, and listen to a sampling of the playlist available on Spotify below that.